Playwright · tool · fg-0383

npx playwright install hangs after the first browser download on Playwright 1.55 to 1.59 with recent Node releases

The download reaches 100% and then the install prints nothing and never exits

Verified 2026-10-15 · Confirmed by 0 builders · Trust 50/100

Cause

Playwright before 1.60 unpacked browsers with a yauzl stream whose close event never fires under newer Node stream lifecycle behavior, so the extract step waits forever. Playwright 1.60 vendors a patched yauzl.

Fix

Upgrade Playwright to 1.60.0 or later. That is the only real fix, since the hang also appears on the Node 24 LTS line from 24.16.

Apply

npm i -D @playwright/test@^1.60.0 && npx playwright install --with-deps

Affects: Playwright 1.55.1 to 1.59.x on recent Node releases (26.x, 24.16 and later); fixed in 1.60.0 (released 2026-05-11)

Sources

Have your agent know this before it fails

claude mcp add --transport http footgun https://getfootgun.com/api/mcp